On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Gottlob Frege <gottlobfrege@gmail.com> wrote:
It may be beyond the scope of Boost.Filesystem, but I'd really prefer C++ exceptions to be thrown instead of SIG faults. Particularly if I'm trying to write x-platform code, which might very well be the reason I'm using Boost.Filesystem instead of direct OS calls in the first place.
I'm pretty sure that the C and C++ lib calls that write to a file will result in your app being terminated as a result of the signal in question when the file being written exceeds the max size. It's been a *long* time since I've written any posix signal handlers, but I think you're going to run into control flow problems if you try to convert this signal to a c++ exception. <cue expert commentary here> Jon